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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?

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